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What party? You're confusing dictatorships and planned economies.
by anoncake 5y ago
What party? You're confusing dictatorships and planned economies.
- goatlover 5y agoThe party that plans the economy.
- anoncake 5y agoWhy would a political organization plan the economy, as opposed to a specialized government agency? You're confusing dictatorships and planned economies.
- drdeca 5y agoPerhaps read “party” as “entity” or “organization of people” as in the phrase “a party to the agreement” or whatever? That being said, I see no way that a governmental organization which plans the economy could fail to be political, by which I mean, closely connected to highly contentious government policy decisions.
- anoncake 5y agoOf course it will be, that's just the nature of making decisions. But these decisions have to be made anyway. It's better if they depend on the policies of an elected government than the whims of rich people.
- drdeca 5y agoI'm not sure that the decision do have to be made in the same sense that they are made if there is an explicit policy. But, regardless, a "specialized government agency" which "plans the economy", would I think invariably be a "political organization".
- developer93 5y agoIf I put my cynic hat on for a moment, normal government policies often depend on the whims of rich people as we are, unequal access to lobbying is a problem.
- anoncake 5y agoThey do. But how do you get rich? By having other people work for you. That cannot happen to nearly the same extent in a planned economy.
- developer93 5y agoI don't think we really need stupidly rich people. Is taxation a planned economy?
- imtringued 5y agoA million poor people are rich in aggregate.
- anoncake 5y agoWhat are you trying to say?